Rachel Jewett

Revenue in the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) segment was down 9% in the first quarter of 2025, but the segment’s operating margin improved year-over-year.  BDS reported revenue of […]

Satellite ground technology startup Northwood Space has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Alpine Space Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).  Also Capital, Founders Fund, and […]

Globalsat Group will deploy a hybrid satellite and LTE connectivity solution across railway operations for VLI Logística in Brazil, under a new deal announced Tuesday.  This project will provide faster […]

Iridium CEO Matt Desch walked investors through how tariffs are impacting Iridium’s equipment supply chain, saying that for now, Iridium is absorbing a higher cost of importing goods into the […]

SpaceX launched the third Bandwagon rideshare mission on Monday evening, launching satellites for Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Tomorrow.io, and Atmos Space Cargo.  Bandwagon is a SpaceX rideshare mission […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is now planning for the first full-scale launch for Amazon Project Kuiper on Monday April 28, at 7 p.m. ET. The mission was set to launch […]

The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched early Monday included new in-space drug development technology by Redwire.  Redwire launched a high-volume industrial crystallizer that is capable […]

The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) group is planning a second European PlugFest in Germany this September to bring together companies from around the world to test the interoperability […]

Polish space company Creotech Instruments will build three Earth observation (EO) satellites for Poland under a new contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) announced April 15. The contract is […]

L3Harris Technologies completed a $125 million expansion at its payload manufacturing facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to support its work for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and the “Golden Dome” […]

AT&T anticipates trials this year between AST SpaceMobile direct-to-cell connectivity and the FirstNet public safety network. This comes after this week, the FCC granted AST SpaceMobile approval to test direct-to-cellular […]

Shipping company Caribe Tankers USA will trial Inmarsat Maritme’s NexusWave managed connectivity service. Caribe Tankers will trial the service on its chemical tankers Caribe Maria and Caribe Luna. Inmarsat Maritime, […]

There’s a growing recognition that governments and large enterprises need alternative paths of connectivity, Rivada Space Networks CEO Declan Ganley says. In a recent conversation with Via Satellite, Ganley says […]

Taiwan’s largest telco, Chunghwa Telecom, is investing in a dedicated MicroGEO satellite built by Astranis, to increase access to satellite capacity. The companies said this will be the first communications […]

American Airlines is the latest airline to move toward a free Wi-Fi model for loyalty members. Starting in 2026, American will have free Wi-Fi on all aircraft equipped with Viasat […]

Agritech company Carbon Robotics is launching a new autonomy solution called Carbon AutoTractor, enabled by a low-latency satellite link. The Carbon AutoTractor product uses SpaceX‘s Starlink satellite connectivity, Via Satellite […]

The Hughes Network Systems HL1100W antenna is now available commercially for use on the Eutelsat OneWeb satellite network, Hughes announced last week. HL1100W was designed as a lighter solution to […]

Momentus has a new agreement with Velo3D to leverage the company’s additive manufacturing to produce space system components. According to Velo3D, the master services agreement announced Monday is worth $15 […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As the commercial space industry is investing in space communications with satellite constellations, terminals, and networking technologies, the U.S. military is working through how to bring […]

Intelsat has signed a new line-fit agreement with Embraer that allows Embraer to install Intelsat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) equipment on Embraer E2 aircraft during factory production, the companies announced April […]

As innovation has accelerated in satellite communications in the past five years, it has put pressure on hardware and software providers to deliver greater performance and more flexible capabilities. While […]

Reuters exclusively reported on April 4 that Eutelsat has been supplying satellite internet to Ukraine with funding from the German government.  Eutelsat has been providing the connectivity for about a […]

Space logistics company D-Orbit announced a deal on Friday to acquire Italian Earth Observation (EO) and analytics company Planetek Group to bring together in-orbit servicing and space data. D-Orbit has […]

Intelsat received a task order under the Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (PLEO) contract vehicle to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with maritime connectivity.  Under the 12-month task order, Intelsat said […]

Saudi Arabia’s new airline Riyadh Air selected Viasat to provide in-flight connectivity on its initial Boeing 787 Dreamliner factory-installed deliveries. Riyadh Air is a new airline owned by Saudi Arabia’s […]

SpinLaunch, the startup developing a steel vacuum chamber to launch satellites to space, is also pursuing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband constellation.  SpinLaunch, based in Long Beach, California, announced plans […]

Aetherflux, the space solar power startup from the co-founder of Robinhood Baiju Bhatt, raised $50 million in a Series A funding round, the company announced Wednesday.  Index Ventures and Interlagos […]

MDA Space will acquire Israeli satellite tech company SatixFy Communications for $193 million under an agreement announced on Tuesday to boost its technology portfolio for satellite constellations.  In 2023, MDA […]

Spire Global grew revenue 13% in 2024, as it deals with “ongoing disruption” working to close a sale of its maritime business to data and analytics platform Kpler. Spire reported […]

CesiumAstro has entered a contract with the Taiwan Space Agency to supply software-defined payloads and ground user terminals for Taiwan’s experimental Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite program.  CesiumAstro, headquartered in Texas, […]